'''Azanulbizar''' was the [[Dwarves]]' name for a valley between two arms of the [[Misty Mountains]], called [[Nanduhirion]] by the [[Elves]] and the [[Dimrill Dale]] by [[Men]]. Azanulbizar was of vital importance in [[Dwarvish]] history: it was here that [[Durin I|Durin]] first looked on the waters of [[Kheled-zâram]] and was inspired to found [[Khazad-dûm]]. It was here, too, millennia later, that Dwarves destroyed the armies of the [[Orcs]] to bring an end to the [[War of the Dwarves and Orcs]].

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'''Azanulbizar''' was the [[Khuzdul]] name for "[[Dimrill Dale]]".<ref>{{FR|II3}}</ref> The name was lent to the [[Battle of Azanulbizar|battle]] fought there.<ref>{{App|Durin}}</ref>

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==Etymology==

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[[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] explored various possibilities regarding the exact interpretation of the elements occurring in the name: it is either ''[[Azanul]]'' + ''[[bizar]]'' or ''[[Uzn|Azan]]+[[ûl]]+[[bizar]]'', though the whole was to somehow express "Dimrill Dale".

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Tolkien stated that "the Common Speech form is an accurate translation: the valley of the dim (overshadowed) rills that ran down the mountainside".<ref>[[Jared Lobdell]] (ed.), ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'', p. 182</ref> In another point it is given as "Vale of Dim Streams" with three elements.<ref name="RS">{{HM|RS}}, p. 466</ref>

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The first interpretation says that ''azan'' "shadows, dimnesses", ''[[-ul]]'' genitive marker and ''bizar'' "streams, rills"; in this interpretation it means "rills of shadows", and the word "dale" is understood (the full name being ''[[duban]] Azanulbizar'').<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. 269</ref>

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According to the second interpretation, ''bizar'' means "dale" and ''ul'' "rill(s), streams".<ref name="RS"/>

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Latest revision as of 06:50, 26 August 2011

Tolkien explored various possibilities regarding the exact interpretation of the elements occurring in the name: it is either Azanul + bizar or Azan+ûl+bizar, though the whole was to somehow express "Dimrill Dale".

Tolkien stated that "the Common Speech form is an accurate translation: the valley of the dim (overshadowed) rills that ran down the mountainside".[3] In another point it is given as "Vale of Dim Streams" with three elements.[4]

The first interpretation says that azan "shadows, dimnesses", -ul genitive marker and bizar "streams, rills"; in this interpretation it means "rills of shadows", and the word "dale" is understood (the full name being duban Azanulbizar).[5]

According to the second interpretation, bizar means "dale" and ul "rill(s), streams".[4]